Eric Florack on May 24th, 2007

Billy is rightfully incredulous over an article he points to in the WaPo, today:

 

“I lay on the table a modest proposal: Put the government into the oil business.”

Somebody named Steven Pearlstein loses his mind right out loud

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davidl on May 24th, 2007

John ConyersTalk about stuck of stupid.   Instead of dealing with either the supply situation or refining capacity shortfall, the House passes a bill utterly incapable doing anything to help motorists at the pump.   Josef Hebert, Associated Press, reports:

WASHINGTON –

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Eric Florack on May 23rd, 2007

* It is more than passing strange to me, and should be to you, that one of the people who is running for president, and claims to be a conservative, has a legislative output, the high points of which match

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davidl on May 23rd, 2007

Elisabeth HasselbackBBIV goes to Elisabeth Hasselbeck, View.  Hasselbeck takes on the windbag, Rosie, “Toyko” O’Donnell and has O’Donnell playing the fat lesbian card.

Howie, Jawa Report:

I can’t even begin to describe how much I enjoyed seeing Rosie backed into

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davidl on May 23rd, 2007

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Thus “reason,” as Al Gore uses the term, refers to the ability of the leftist elite to impose its conventional dogmas on the national debate, without the need to persuade or convince others.

Robert Tracinski, Real Clear Politics

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Eric Florack on May 22nd, 2007

fandl.jpgThe Music: Chuck Mangione’s “Freinds and Love” concert, recorded here in Rochester at the Eastman Theatre, 1970. The single it came off of that album, was called “Hill Where The Lord Hides”, which is to this day one of

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davidl on May 22nd, 2007

Ron Paul

Just as John McCain is a RINO, republican in name only, Ron Paul is SINO, sane in name only.  Brian, Iowa Voice, provides conclusive evidence Paul is a moonbat.   Paul is no more sane than Ross Perot or Dennis Kuchinich.

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Eric Florack on May 22nd, 2007

Noted at AJ Strata’s place:

I hate to say to the liberals I told you so, but I have been saying the ‘science’ on the matter of what is the force behind the Global Warming does not exist in

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davidl on May 22nd, 2007

Clarence Page

NBC, accuses Rush Limbaugh of mocking Barrack Obama.  Ian, Hot Air, has the video.

Yet for all the pomposity, NBC, blindly or willfully, misses the point.  Clarence Page explains what NBC missed:

The song actually mocks Sharpton more

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Eric Florack on May 21st, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO –KUTV– A California lawmaker, who favors a penalty for people caught driving while using their cell phone, reportedly caused a car accident this weekend – while she was on her cell phone.

State Sen. Carole Migden, 58, D-San

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Billy, home just yesterday, has apaprently recovered enough to start writing again, in this case about the monster being hatched on the American people, known as the “immigration bill “.

 

I am a lot more concerned with the implications for

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Eric Florack on May 21st, 2007

CRAWFORD, Texas â€”  Former President Jimmy Carter backed off Monday from harshly critical comments he made of President Bush over the weekend after the White House offered a biting rebuke to the former president by calling him “increasingly irrelevant.”

“My

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Eric Florack on May 21st, 2007

from the mailbag:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) delayed until May 21 the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S. 1348, immigration legislation very similar to last year’s Senate-passed amnesty bill (S. 2611). The vote was delayed

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davidl on May 21st, 2007

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Or could it be that Mitt Romney killed this deal on Tuesday night when he said the McCain-Kennedy bill would do to immigration what the McCain-Feingold bill did to campaign financing.

Don Surber, on the Kennedy-McCain Shamesty bill.  

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davidl on May 20th, 2007

fred-thompson.jpgBy now Fred Thompson’s thirty-eight second video response to Michael Moore, which we blogged on Tuesday, is famous.  What may be even more impressive than the video itself is the process, or  better yet, the lack of process behind it.

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